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thinking sphinx not generating configuration file

Migrating an application to another server... upon bundle exec rake ts:configure rake aborted! Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - ~/app/shared/config/development.sphinx.conf

sphinx.yml states

development:
  bin_path: /usr/local/bin
  searchd_file_path: ~/app/shared/sphinx
  use_64_bit: true
  enable_star: 1
  min_infix_len: 1
  max_matches: 10000
  port: 9313

thinking_sphinx.yml states

development:
  bin_path: /usr/local/bin
  pid_file: ~/app/shared/tmp/searchd.pid
  configuration_file: ~/app/shared/config/development.sphinx.conf
  indices_location: ~/app/shared/sphinx
  use_64_bit: true
  enable_star: true
  min_infix_len: 2
  max_matches: 1000
  mysql41: 9313
  mem_limit: 128M

I fail to comprehend the message that states that development.sphinx.conf does not exist as it is supposed to be created from the rake task.

Solution

  • Two components to the answer:

    1) make absolute paths
    2) indexer on Ubuntu is at /usr/bin

    development:
  bin_path: /usr/bin
  pid_file: /home/mainuser/app/shared/tmp/searchd.pid
  configuration_file: /home/mainuser/app/shared/config/development.sphinx.conf
  indices_location: /home/mainuser/app/shared/sphinx
[...]

    Answer is still partial as indexing captures 0 documents and no .sph file is generated.